How Sinful Is Sin? How Vicious Is Vice? A Modest Defense of the Guise of the Good
We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible coun...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2023
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TheoLogica
Jahr: 2023, Band: 7, Heft: 2, Seiten: 1-15 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit NCA Ethik TB Altertum VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Moral Realism
B Socrates B Subjectivism B Bernard Williams B Plato |
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| Zusammenfassung: | We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible counter-examples in life as well as fiction. We contend that the thesis makes wrong-doing and vice intelligible, but still wrong, dysfunctional and horrific. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v7i2.66163 |